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12 For Yahweh says,

“Your hurt is incurable.
    Your wound is grievous.
13 There is no one to plead your cause,
    that you may be bound up.
    You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you.
    They don’t seek you.
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
    with the chastisement of a cruel one,
for the greatness of your iniquity,
    because your sins were increased.
15 Why do you cry over your injury?
    Your pain is incurable.
For the greatness of your iniquity,
    because your sins have increased,
    I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured.
    All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity.
Those who plunder you will be plunder.
    I will make all who prey on you become prey.
17 For I will restore health to you,
    and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh;
“because they have called you an outcast,
    saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

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Healing Zion’s Wounds

12 For this is what the Lord says:

Your injury is incurable;
your wound most severe.(A)
13 You have no defender for your case.(B)
There is no remedy for your sores,
and no healing for you.[a]
14 All your lovers have forgotten you;(C)
they no longer look for you,
for I have struck you as an enemy would,
with the discipline(D) of someone cruel,(E)
because of your enormous guilt
and your innumerable sins.
15 Why do you cry out about your injury?
Your pain has no cure!
I have done these things to you
because of your enormous guilt
and your innumerable sins.(F)
16 Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured,(G)
and all your adversaries—all of them—
will go off into exile.
Those who plunder you will be plundered,
and all who raid you will be raided.(H)
17 But I will bring you health(I)
and will heal you of your wounds—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for they call you Outcast,
Zion whom no one cares about.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:13 Or No one pleads that your sores should be healed. There is no remedy for you.